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![[São Martinho de Angueira (San Martino de Angueira) commune]](../images/p/pt-mdrsm.gif)
2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 20 Feb 2016
Like all toponyms in the municipality, this commune has two names: São Martinho de Angueira in Portuguese and San Martino de Angueira in Mirandese (the local syncretic Asturian-Leonese dialect complex, co-official language of Portugal and given a standard orthography); each is the translation of the other and both mean Saint Martin of an untranslatable, apparently meaningless toponym.The names in brackets are Mirandese, the local language.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Feb 2016
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
Source: communal webpage, the heraldry page of the commune with arms and flag information.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Feb 2016
![[São Martinho de Angueira (San Martino de Angueira) commune CoA]](../images/p/pt-mdrsm).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta, 20 Feb 2016
Shield Argent a Latin cross couped Vert, a crayfish Gules and a stork Sable emphasized Argent and armed Gules all three set 1:2, on a base wavy Azure two fesses wavy Argent. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (village rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "S. MARTINHO DE ANGUEIRA". In spite of the bilingual status (enshrined in the Constitution of 1999), the scroll of the arms is not bilingual, according to the law (signed in 2005).
Sources: communal webpage and this webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Feb 2016
This webpage displays a quartered flag with a central emblem, it can be seen on a 1959 photograph, held by a troupe of folk musicians and merrymakers next to a local landmark. This is not a communal nor a municipal flag, but rather the flag of a cultural, recreational, and touring group.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Feb 2016
Flag and arms published in the official journal Diário da República: III Série on 7 Nov 2002
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Feb 2016
São Martinho de Angueira (San Martino de Angueira) Commune is one of the 13 communes of the Miranda do Douro Municipality; it had 307 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 37.0 km².
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Feb 2016
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